The test, therefore, is ordered if a person presents with symptoms suggesting rheumatic fever or glomerulonephritis and has had a recent history of sore throat or a confirmed streptococcal infection. Since the incidence of post-streptococcal complications has dropped in the U.S., so has the use of the ASO test.
According to Moina, this was the first group-effort asking for poppies to wear in memory of âall who died in Flanders Fieldsâ. Since this group had given her the money with which to buy them, she considered that she made the first sale of the Flanders Fields Memorial Poppy on 9 November 1918.
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote Flanders field to express his feelings after the death of a young friend and former student, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer of Ottawa who had been killed on May 2, 1915, by a shell burst. He wrote the poem to express his anguish and his feelings towards war and what he saw was happening.